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Video shows woman escaping car just before it's smashed by semi on I-44

Harrison Keegan
News-Leader

Yaneth Moose captured some incredible video on her phone on Feb. 4.

Moose was returning from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to her home in Waynesville in snowy conditions when she came upon a pile-up crash on Interstate 44 near Conway.

Moose took out her phone and started recording the scene.

The camera was focused on a white sedan in front of Moose that had hit the back of a tractor-trailer.

Then another tractor-trailer barreled into the frame, apparently unable to stop.

A screen capture shows the moment before a tractor-trailer hit a car on I-44.

Moments before the second tractor-trailer hit the white sedan, a young woman hopped out of the car and fell to the ground.

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The woman then popped up, apparently unharmed, as her vehicle was smashed between the two semis. 

Moose said she was terrified when she saw the crash but she didn't have much time to process it because her vehicle was hit by an RV moments later.

The video has been making the rounds on the internet over the last week and a half.

The highway patrol said it responded to more than 650 crashes on Feb. 4, and five people were killed on Missouri roadways.

Between 60 and 80 crashes took place in the area around the 106 mile marker of I-44, where Moose was filming, according to a highway patrol spokesman.

At least 16 tractor-trailers were involved in the crashes, which consisted of three main crash sites and a 20-car pileup, according to the highway patrol.